From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet
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3 min read From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet This historic image — the first from the surface of Mars — confirmed that NASA’s Viking 1 lander had become the first spacecraft to touch down on the Red Planet on July 20, 1976. NASA/JPL-Caltech Fifty years ago, NASA’s […]